Any way to partition an external hard drive without losing data?

I have an external hard drive with loads of data on it that I would like to keep (all in NTFS format). All I want to do is change it so that what I have will remain on the hard drive and remain in NTFS format while the free space on the drive is converted to FAT32 formatting. Is this possible to do? Thanks!Any way to partition an external hard drive without losing data?
http://gparted.sourceforge.net



You'll have to burn it to a CD and boot off of the CD for this. GParted can resize partitions without destroying them. Just boot it up, find your hard drive in the list, and resize the old partition (it won't let you make it too small). Then make a new partition in the remaining space.
The only way I can think of that would work would be to upload the contents of said hard drive to a file hosting site, such as Rapidshare, Megaupload, or others similar to it. Once it is all uploaded, be sure you save the retrieval information, then partition the external drive.



Once that is done, return to the URL where you stored everything and re-download it and save it to the spots on the drive as you wish them to be.Any way to partition an external hard drive without losing data?
It is possible, but always back up your data first. There is a boot CD called Gparted, based on Linux, that lets you re-size and re-partition drives. It should do the job, and it's free. But to be sure, like I said, backup the data first - then boot the CD and run the partition editor. I've used it on an XP disk, with 2 partitions, and it resized and re-partitioned it ok...
Defrag your drive then download GParted burn it and reboot from it select the drive you want to resize it. You may loose some data but if it defraged the drive properly you should be fine.Any way to partition an external hard drive without losing data?
nope. to repartition you have to kill the partitions already on the disc and manually reformat each part of the drive to what formats you want it.
There is no way to format a drive without erasing its existing data.